This module covers a broad spectrum of road safety topics at a high level, to introduce the transportation professional to basic concepts and terminology and understand the scope of what is commonly considered to be major elements of the road safety genre. The specific areas covered include a basic definition of road safety, evidence-based road safety, crash causation and severity, road user characteristics, road safety partners, approaches to road safety management, economic analysis of safety, road safety culture, and future trends in safety policy and technology.